Vic Spotted & Chat Thread

[ratter]

A car must remain emission complient to it's relevant emission level at all times to be roadworthy. Cutting anything may affect body strength, structural deformation in accidents, air bag deployment etc etc.

[JETFPV]

  On 16/06/2012 at 2:32 AM, bradles024 said:

How is an intercooler / exhaust etc not rwc?

Because when these car's are built and tested standard, Ford only send 1-2 car to get tested and the rest get built to the Exact same tolerances and spec's once they are legal, not every and each individual car is tested as it would blow out cost's rediculously, that's why standard they have really low boost, restrictive cat's, small exhaust's and cooler's and why they tried to develop an ECU which they had hoped would not be able to be cracked which as you know didn't work...

When you go and fit, big exhaust, hi flow cat, bigger cooler & piping, injectors and crank up the boost, the emmision's the car permit's would be double or even triple, which mean's it would be waayyy over what it had been approved for from standard, rendering it illegal....

Edited 16/06/12 02:57 AM by JETFPV

[Shyfrd]

Is it bad that I kinda regret not t boning a car before at about 40-50kmh and possibly write my car off? Lol

[nick d]

I see I have started something but its in favour of everyones knowledge of whats going on at the moment as our cars are the target for scrutinerring on changed intercoolers(if plastic bar has been cut or had a cut out its an auto-matic structure interferrence and unroadworthy another is change of a bigger turbo than from factory.

As hwy is the majority of the talk onspotted thread these cars are now the target for the boys in blue as why I have forwarded my information to you guys as in my above posts for you all to be aware of the situatuation.

Edited 16/06/12 04:12 AM by nick d

[etrocket]

Whats the basic cOst for a rwc????

[Shyfrd]

Depends where you go. Mate has told me his are ~$125 or so but in melb some are asking over $200

[XR6menace]

So my car will get defected this weekend then ??

LOL good luck finding my cooler piping ... looks under rear bar

[ratter]

  On 16/06/2012 at 4:31 AM, etrocket said:

Whats the basic cOst for a rwc????

$150-$200 seem to be the going rate around my area

[etrocket]

Are they only valid for 1 month? And if they fit things that need fixing does the car have to go back. Obviously for them to check?

Last one I done was 12 years ago and that was over the phone. Greek style

[bradles024]

But they don't do emissions testing when they do a rwc?